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Authorities raid the German bank Deutsche Bank as part of a money laundering probe into €200 billion of suspicious payments identified into the accounts of Danske Bank's branch in Estonia. Danske Bank's Estonian boss from 2007 to 2015 is found dead near Tallinn at his home in circumstances police describe as neither suspicious nor accidental.
2019-09-25

The Obama administration through the United States Department of Justice lowers the fine against Germany's Deutsche Bank to a settlement of US$5.4 billion after being handed a demand for up to $14 billion earlier this month over the sale of toxic mortgage bonds.
2016-09-30

Merck agrees to buy "superbug"-fighter Cubist Pharmaceuticals for $9.5 billion.
2014-12-8

Coca-Cola buys a ten percent stake in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters for US$1.25 billion.
2014-02-7

American pop band One Republic donates $1 million to aid the victims.
2013-11-30

The U.S. Justice Department approves SoftBank's proposed $20.1 billion purchase of Sprint Nextel. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is the final hurdle in the way of the deal's final approval.
2013-06-7

Apple initiates the largest ever non-bank bond offering, valued at $17 billion.
2013-04-30

NASA extends its contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency, paying $424 million for the RKA to deliver and receive astronauts shuttled to the ISS through 2016.
2013-04-30

Moody's downgrades the credit rating of 15 major world banks: UK (The Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and HSBC), US (Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan), Rest of world (Credit Suisse, UBS, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Société Générale, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Morgan Stanley).
2012-06-21

Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, recuses himself from that agency's investigation into the bankruptcy of MF Global.
2011-11-7